Anyone know what this is?!
Question:
I'm 19 years old and if I eat any type of food in the morning or afternoon, I get very sick and vomit. IT'S NOT AN EATING DISORDER!
I can eat dinner because it doesn't make me sick. Any ideas?
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If this has been happening since childhood, it seems as if it may be a psychogenic thing.
Firstly, could it be rumination disorder?
A. Repeated regurgitation and re-chewing of food for a period of at least 1 month following a period of normal functioning.
B. The behavior is not due to an associated gastrointestinal or other general medical condition (e.g., esophageal reflux).
Or maybe just classic 'eating disorder'.
possible causes include:
Classical conditioning: the development of conditioned avoidance of food in children who have had unpleasant associations due to medical/organic problems or parental adversity: become ‘food phobic’, and may gag when seeing the food and in the presence of food cues
Adverse parental interaction around mealtimes may also result in conditioned learning. Emotional or physical abuse when food is present can result in children developing distorted eating patterns.
Operant conditioning: child learns to avoid food or certain foods as a response to parents’ behaviour, through copying or by parental reinforcement of food avoidance behaviour (associations between maternal eating problems and child eating problems)
Antecedent-stimulus response paradigm: severely selective children will have their behaviour maintained by their parents by only providing their preferred foods. Attempts to introduce new food are met with high levels of resistance, fear, anger, non-cooperation so the parents give in and resort to only offering their child their preferred foods. Similarly, children who drink excessive amounts of milk or juice become restricted in the food they eat as drinking reduces their appetite: under the aversive control of their child who is crying for their bottle, parents cannot resist.
Social learning factors: occur when parents fail to establish the conditions conducive to eating meals, i.e. allow unrestricted access to food throughout the day, do not have regular meal times, or serve food in inappropriate amounts. This creates an absence of effective cues. Additionally, ineffective consequences after inappropriate problem eating can develop into a coercive power struggle.
Attachment problem: This focuses on the quality of the relationship between the parents and child from early days of life. Disturbed or delayed attachment experiences can be seen as contributory to some childhood feeding patterns where the mother finds difficulty in emphasizing with the infant and does not recognize adequately the child’s cues for feeding.
Now, I'm really not trying to insinuate you had a bad mother, etc. Maybe an interplay between psychological and biological (i.e. medical) effects. But if any of those causes/ideas sound familiar, I would advise getting cognitive-behaviural therapy: this is not designed to look at 'why' per say you have an eating disorder, but rather to change your behaviour and cognitions when it comes to food. In fact, if you don't like the above explanations, rule out a medical problem (the diabetes answer above sounded plausible), then I would still advise getting treatment to change the way you relate to food.
All the best, hope that helps somewhat!
Other Answers:
When that happen to me I found out I was 3 months pregant. How long have this been going on?
are you sure you're not pregnant?
You could have a bowel or intestinal disease. I would suggest you talk to your doctor and she what they suggest.
It is an eating dis-order. Tried having a light dinner?
I used to be like that until my mid 20s. In my case it was because someone wanted me to eat, and I wouldnt get hungry until late afternoon. Are you hungry in the mornings/afternoons? Or are you eating because your parents want you to? Also, are you trying a variety of foods?
Could be any number of intestinal disorders. Most likely culprit is irritable bowel syndrome. Pregnancy is another possibility. Maybe even Crohn's disease. A Dr,. will have perform diagnostic studies to make sure.
surely you've been to the doctor in the last 12 years?? there are a lot of diseases that cause nausea, perhaps you have ulcers, colitis who knows?ask a doctor
There is a possibility of uncontrolled diabetes. If you do not have it now, then you may have had it. As far as throwing up, that can happen if your blood sugar gets too high and once you have thrown up every day for a couple of weeks, then your body automatically gets ill and thinks it needs to throw up. You should really go to the doctor. The acid in your vomit will eat away your esophagus. This seems serious and maybe you just need some anti-nausea medication.
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Personal experience
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